Answer: Here's an answer I gave to someone else on the subject.This happens a lot with kids that are nursing because of the comfort we provide them.The reason she is getting up at night is not likely because she is hungry it's because she can and she can get comforted with by you through nursing. I went through the exact thing with my son and then a little bit with my daughter. I do not completely believe in the "scream it out" method like many suggested to me I like a more gentle approach.Without having all the info it's hard for me to know where to start so here it goes .. Does your child but herself to sleep at night or do you rock/feed her to sleep? If you are feeding her or rocking her until she falls asleep then putting her in her bed she will more than likely continue to get up in the night looking for the same comfort she went to bed with. It's so hard giving up rocking the baby to sleep I know I sure loved that time with my children but in the end it is better for them and you. So if that is the case you need to stop that and start working on her going to bed on her on. Your daughter should be awake but drowsy when you place her in the crib.If she is already putting herself to bed then when she wakes up in the middle of the night my method is to lay her back down without saying a word and I would gently rub her back. When I first started this with both my kids they would get back up and yell and scream but I was just held fast to what I was trying to accomplish and got through it. After a couple times my kids would then go back to bed if I was rubbing their backs. Then I moved to not rubbing but just placing my hand one their backs. Again this insighted a bit of rioting but I held fast and we got through it. All the while I would not talk just shhhhhhhh them gently. So next I moved to just sitting by the crib and then by the door then on the out side of the door. Sometimes when I was sitting outside the door or by the door I would have to say, "lay your head on your pillow and go night night, mommy is here." But I didn't do this often because it would tend to wake them up because they would want to be with me. After a while when my son would get up in the middle of night he'd either just go straight back with out a peep and other times he would stand up and scream a bit and I would just say from my room that we were there and to go back to bed, and amazingly he would. There will be a lot of tears shed by your child but they are not "real" tears your child is fine they are just mad.